Peter C. Phan
Encyclopedia
Peter C. Phan is an American Catholic theologian who is a native of Vietnam.
He obtained three doctorates, the Doctor of Sacred Theology from the Salesian University in Rome, and the Doctor of Philosophy and the Doctor of Divinity from the university of London
. He was also awarded the honorary Doctor of Theology from Chicago Theological Union.
His many writings have been translated into Italian, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese. He is general editor of a multi-volume series entitled Theology in Global Perspective for Orbis Books and a multi-volume series entitled Ethnic American Pastoral Spirituality for Paulist Press. His writings have received many awards from learned societies.
In 2007, it was announced that Phan was being investigated by the USCCB's Committee on Doctrine and by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
for having attempted to introduce Asian negative theology
into Catholic teaching.
He obtained three doctorates, the Doctor of Sacred Theology from the Salesian University in Rome, and the Doctor of Philosophy and the Doctor of Divinity from the university of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
. He was also awarded the honorary Doctor of Theology from Chicago Theological Union.
His many writings have been translated into Italian, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese. He is general editor of a multi-volume series entitled Theology in Global Perspective for Orbis Books and a multi-volume series entitled Ethnic American Pastoral Spirituality for Paulist Press. His writings have received many awards from learned societies.
In 2007, it was announced that Phan was being investigated by the USCCB's Committee on Doctrine and by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , previously known as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition , and after 1904 called the Supreme...
for having attempted to introduce Asian negative theology
Negative theology
Apophatic theology —also known as negative theology or via negativa —is a theology that attempts to describe God, the Divine Good, by negation, to speak only in terms of what may not be said about the perfect goodness that is God...
into Catholic teaching.
Publications
- Culture and Eschatology: The Iconographical Vision of Paul Evdokimov
- Social Thought; Grace and the Human Condition
- Eternity in Time: A Study of Rahner’s Eschatology; Death and Eternal Life)
- Mission and Catechesis: Alexandre de Rhodes and Inculturation in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam
- Christianity with an Asian Face; In Our Own Tongues; Being Religious Interreligiously)
- Christianity and the Wider Ecumenism
- Church and Theology; Journeys at the Margins
- The Asian Synod
- The Gift of the Church
- Directory on Popular Piety and Liturgy.